It was quite the challenge to capture the sunset at six different rural land real estate properties in Huerfano CountyColorado with only three nights to do so! This resulted in one evening being like the end of the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula with me actually racing against the sunset to get to the last property in time before the sun disappeared behind the mountains. Unlike in the movie, I did make it before the sunset and got the shots I needed. Without having to race around in a Jeep, you can see all the sunset views made with my signature HDR technique.
I recently spent a lot of time in view of the Spanish Peaks. Names simply West and East Spanish Peak, you can find them in Huerfano County, Colorado. These photos were made in March, but there is still plenty of snow covering the mountains. The approximately 13,000 feet tall peaks were a constant as I spent four days photographing rural land real estate all over the area. They would certainly be an amazing view framed in a living room window!
For smaller town life in Colorado checkout Walsenburg
Visiting rural places is a common part of being a rural land real estate photographer. In the past four years I have been to nearly every part of New Mexico, and now this work is taking me into southern Colorado, which is where I found the town of Walsenburg. The client wanted photos from the town, so I actually got paid to walk the historic streets and wonder when the heyday of these places were. I strolled past diners long closed, new stores in old storefronts, and a movie theatre that must have been a lot more exciting in 1961 than 2021. I really like having the opportunity to see places I never normally would, and try and feel the memories of what used to take place in decades past.
